Improvement in bridles



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ORVILLE F. WEBSTER, OF ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO WILLIAM WV. NICHOLS, QF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT INLBRIDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,277, d. ted October 16, 1877; application filed August 27, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORvILLE F. WEnsTEn, of Ann Arbor, in the county of Washtenaw and State of Michigan, have invented certain Improvements in Harness-Bridles, of which I the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide guiding devices for overdraw check-reins, which will hold them in such manner that they cannot possibly escape, and which will at the same time admit of their being instantly re-' leased therefrom; and to this end the invention consists in mounting upon the crown-piece of the bridle two rigid metallic guides, each having two transverse overlapping arms.

Figtu-e 1 represents a perspective view of a bridle having my improvements thereon; Fig. 2, a perspective view of one of the guides; Fig. 3, a plan view of one of the guides, showing the rein, and the manner in which it is inserted and removed.

A represents an ordinary bridle, provided with an overdraw check rein, B, and O O are my two guides, secured firmly on top of the crown-piece, in the proper positions to receive one branch orend of the check-rein each.

nel or recess of greater or less depth made across the bedplate under the arms, all for the purpose of holding the reins the more readily in their operative positions, and permitting them to play freely.

The guides are fasteneduponthe crown-piece with their arms extending lengthwise of the same, and at right angles to the reins, as shown.

Each rein is inserted by bending it crosswise, and slipping it down between the arms, as

shown in Fig. 8, and then straightening it under the arms, as shown in Fig. 1, in which position the two arms extending across it hold it securely, and prevent any possibility of its escaping, while at the same time they leave it free to move endwise.

The check-rein may, of course, be of any suitable form in cross-section; but it is preferred to make it,.as usual, of a round form, which is lighter and neater in appearance than any other, and for holding which my guide is specially adapted. Having described my invention, what I claim 1s In combination with the crown -band of a bridle and the overdraw check-lines, metallic guides, having overlapping transverse arms, secured to the band, to receive and hold the check-lines, all substantially as shown and described.

OEVILLE F. EVEBSTER. 

